Yi-Chun Lin:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6770-4246
Role: Data curationRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – original draft
Chih-Ying Lin: Role: Formal analysisRole: Software
Siew-Yin Chee: Role: MethodologyRole: Resources
Hung-Rong Yen: Role: Writing – review & editing
Fuu-Jen Tsai: Role: Resources
Chiu-Ying Chen: Role: Formal analysisRole: Software
Chung-Hsing Wang: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Hubert Vaudry: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
3
October
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 10
Electronic Location Identifier: e0185080
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung City,
Taiwan
[2
]
Department of Public Health, Doctoral Program, China Medical University, Taichung,
Taiwan
[3
]
Department of Genetics and Metabolism, Children’s Hospital of China Medical University,
Taichung, Taiwan
[4
]
Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, Department of Medical Research,
China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
[5
]
School of Chinese Medicine, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University,
Taichung, Taiwan
[6
]
Department of Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan
[7
]
Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
Universite de Rouen, FRANCE
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-04380
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185080
PMC ID: 5626117
PubMed ID: 28973010
SO-VID: 853e782a-1a82-4b50-a476-7e1311b0b69a
Copyright © © 2017 Lin et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
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the original author and source are credited.
The study was supported by grants from the China Medical University Hospital (DMR-103-040).
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